Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1887-11-21
THE DETROIT TRAGEDY.
The Painful Part the Young Daughter
Of Capt. Mills Played in il.

Detroit special to the Philadelphia Press says:
1t has been disclosed that Miss Mary Mills the
Oldest daughter OF Capt. A. II. Mills, who COM
United suicide on Thursday night after numbering
Mrs. Austin Rising, the wife Of his manager, and
with whom he had been on intimate terms for
eighteen years, played a very remarkable and
dramatic part in the events that followed the
double tragedy. Miss Mills is a tall and strkngly
handsome brunette, eighteen years of age. When
the dead body OF Mrs Rising was found the sus-
piciOn was that her husband had taken her life,
and 1t might have gone hard with him but for the
discovery OF the letters which Captain Mills wrote
shortly before his death and In which he announced
his purpose OF killing Mrs. Rising and himself.
Those letters came into the possession OF Miss
Mills about the time OF the murder and suicide
and she placed them in The bosom OF her gown
with the determination that she would keep them
secret and the public be allowed to suppose that
her fathers crime was due TO the prompting Of q
dlsordered mind. But in an unguarded moment
she made some reference to the letters and the
police catching On to the ciew, forced her to de-
liver the documents, and thus Rising was cleared
of the suspicion which had attached TO him.
But when the police Informed her that they had
discovered her secret and that she must surrender
the papers she declared that she would give them
up only in the presence OF the body OF her father,
as II she wanted him to know that his terrible
secret was wrested from her and would have been
Kept lnviolate II 1t had been possible. Miss Mills
was present when her father shot himself and 1t
Is supposed he handed her the confession just be-
fore he blew his brains out She preserved re-
through which she has passed. and is passing, for
the Mills residence continues 10 be place or great
excitement. Mrs. Agnes Elliott, married daugh-
ter OF capt. Mills, is crazed with grief, and has
had two or three paroxysms bordering on 1nsan-
1ty.
Miss Mary Mills talked freely OF the relations ex-
listing between her father and Mrs Rising, and the
influence which the woman possessed over him.
When Miss Mills learned The truth she begged her
father to put the woman away. She refused to
have anything 10 say to Mrs. Rising, and the latter
then declared war on Miss Mills boaSting that she
would have the daughter turned out OF the house
TO ST rive in the streets. Mrs. Rising even applied
the most opprobrious epithets TO the daughter in
the presence OF the father, and on these occasions
he never made more than the feeblest efforts to
stop IL. All this time Miss Mills had to scheme
hide the truth from Others and never let her own
suspicious betray the awful secret.
LARGE AMOUNT OF MISSING MONEY
The body OF the murdered woman lies unclaimed
and deserted even by her husband. Capt. Mills
had on his person on the day he killed himself a
large sum OF money, and he did not pay out any OF
It, When the body was searched Just 40 cents
were found. The police to-day made systematic
search for the money, thoroughly overhauling the
effects In the Rising house. The sum OF $5S only
was found. The police Will institute a search In
the Mills homestead.